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Top 23 Shell Dotfile Projects
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Project mention: Finder is so frustrating and has been since day one | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-09-06
This may be of use:
> defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles -bool true
Change to `false` to reverse it. You have to `killall Finder` or force quit it for each to take effect.
Also, Shift-Command-. (dot) in Finder. You can find a lot of useful settings that can be adjusted to your preferred mode digging through this repo (not affiliated): https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles
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Hyprland-Dots
Hyprland configuration files or dotfiles - This repo is used as main repo for all my Distro-Hyprland Install Scripts. See the readme (by JaKooLit)
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SaaSHub
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dotfiles
rice 🍚 custom linux config files. as seen on r/unixporn #noricenolife neovim cultist. dotfiles are perpetual wip (by xero)
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tmux-config
Tmux configuration, that supercharges your tmux to build cozy and cool terminal environment
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TermuxArch
You can use setupTermuxArch.bash 📲 to install Arch Linux in Amazon, Android, Chromebook and Windows. https://sdrausty.github.io/TermuxArch/docs/install
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dotfriedrice
Set up a developer friendly niri / Arch Linux system in minutes. Also supports WSL 2, Debian, Ubuntu and macOS for CLI tools!
> It's a lot more than any shell script I've written, certainly. If you've written a more complex one I'd love to see it.
I've been maintaining https://github.com/nickjj/dotfriedrice for around 8 years, it's my dotfiles that have an installer and other things. I'd still absolutely classify this is a shell script / dotfiles project. I've added just enough customization to make it easy to modify things without needing to fork the repo if you like most of the opinions.
I only added a GUI last year after my hardware was finally compatible with Linux, otherwise I would have switched almost 10 years ago. Before that, it focused on command line tools and your terminal, that's because I ran it under Windows with WSL 2 but it also worked fine on native Linux even back then, macOS too because I use it on a company issued laptop.
All that to say, I don't see it as anything special. It's a batteries included dotfiles, nothing more nothing less.
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dotfiles
dotfiles for the developer happiness: macos, zsh, brew, vscode, python, minimalism (by sobolevn)
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Dotfile projects in Shell? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | dotfiles | 31,438 |
| 2 | .tmux | 25,428 |
| 3 | hyprdots | 8,497 |
| 4 | dotfiles | 7,774 |
| 5 | dotfiles | 4,765 |
| 6 | Hyprland-Dots | 3,588 |
| 7 | dotfiles | 3,565 |
| 8 | dotfiles | 2,726 |
| 9 | polybar-scripts | 2,637 |
| 10 | dotfiles | 2,390 |
| 11 | tmux-config | 2,302 |
| 12 | vcsh | 2,282 |
| 13 | dotfiles-2.0 | 1,919 |
| 14 | antidote | 1,812 |
| 15 | TermuxArch | 1,655 |
| 16 | hotfiles | 1,564 |
| 17 | dotfiles | 1,537 |
| 18 | dotfiles | 1,361 |
| 19 | dotfriedrice | 1,344 |
| 20 | dot | 1,290 |
| 21 | myTermux | 1,249 |
| 22 | dotfiles | 1,244 |
| 23 | dotfiles | 991 |
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